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peasantry

pe zuhn tree

  • n  the class of peasants

  • When Mao Zedong said China's strength lay in its peasantry, he didn't mean as a tourist attraction.
  • From the beginning of the war in Viet Nam, nothing has proved more difficult to capture than the allegiance of the peasantry, particularly the landless tenant farmers.
  • She prefers to remain behind the throne, walking with the peasantry, rallying the people but leaving power in the hands of her gray-haired viziers.
Quotes

  • Vladimir Lenin in World Socialist Web Site
    Lenin argued that the bourgeois-democratic revolution would therefore take the form of the "democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry".
  • Sukhbir Singh Badal in Punjab Newspaper
    This arbitrary decision on part of the government of India amounted to rubbing salt into the wounds of the beleaguered peasantry besides adding up their woes, said Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal.
  • Vandana Shiva in KalingaTimes
    The SEZ Act is anti-peasantry, anti-rural poor, anti-labour and anti- environment. It will also be a huge drain on the public exchequer,Shiva said, adding that India has reached its current state of economic growth without help from SEZs.

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